Israel sets five national R&D priorities for future investment
Israel’s National Council for Civilian Research and Development (NCCRD) has recommended that Israel’s top five research and development priorities should be bio-convergence (merging engineering and medicine); food tech; renewable energy and energy storage; civilian space industry and blue tech (using the sea as a national resource).
The committee also recommended continuing government support for two areas previously identified as national priorities, which have already received initial funding: quantum AI and data science.
These five fields “are significant in terms of global competition and the continued advancement of Israel’s cutting-edge technologies, with a view to ensuring its economic future and maintaining its scientific excellence over the next five years,” said NCCRD Chairman Prof. Peretz Lavie.
